Topic: Syd Barrett's live tape recording announced Posted: January 30 2014 at 09:00

I've heard on a radio that a tape containing a live exhibition of a band I havan't caught the name taken in 1972 has been purchased for 5K$ by a label. They don't say when, but this year it will be released on CD. It contains three Syd Barrett's previously unreleased songs (they say never listened before). Barrett was just a guest on that night, anyway I assume that the songs they mention are not Scream Thy Last Scream or Vegetable Man.

According to David Parker's excellent and relentlessly detailed record of Syd's work, Barrett played 4-5 shows (the last unconfirmed) in January and February 1972, at 3 locations all in Cambridge. There is no set list for the 1/27 show.

However, on 2/24 he played his last confirmed gig at Corn Exchange with Monck and Twink as part of a group dubbed "Stars." The set list for this show was: Octopus, Dark Globe, Baby Lemonade, Waving my Arms in the Air, Lucifer Sam, Blues Jam 1 and Blues Jam 2.

Parker notes the mention of a second gig on 2/26 but couldn't confirm it, thus he concludes the one above may have been the last show.

I've heard on a radio that a tape containing a live exhibition of a band I havan't caught the name taken in 1972 has been purchased for 5K$ by a label. They don't say when, but this year it will be released on CD. It contains three Syd Barrett's previously unreleased songs (they say never listened before). Barrett was just a guest on that night, anyway I assume that the songs they mention are not Scream Thy Last Scream or Vegetable Man.

I'll see if I can find more info.

Mmm... if the songs were recorded live, then they can't be "never listened before".

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